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the success of the dairy industry in the surrounding states. I 

 thought they should congratulate themselves because Wisconsin 

 was the home of the Patron Saint of the Dairy Industry — Ivlr. 

 Hoard of Fort Atkinson. I believe that all ov^er this land some- 

 thing should be done while that man, who is now past four score 

 years, still lives, to show him that this is a republic of not en- 

 tirely ungrateful people, and that we the dairymen of the coun- 

 try believe in paying tribute and conferring honor on whom honor 

 is due when he still lives. His memory is clear as forty 

 years ago when he was traveling about all through that state 

 with his little sample copy of his Dairyman, going about and giv- 

 ing lectures on the necessity of keeping dairy cows to enrich the 

 soil, going about spreading the gospel and making it possible for 

 us to see what we are seeing today all over this country, inter- 

 ested dairymen, and we virtually know that eighty per cent have 

 gotten quite a percentage of their information from the writings 

 of this same man. Whenever the opportunity arises, pay tribute 

 to that man because he will not long be with us. 



I thank you for the opportunity of meeting you." (Ap- 

 plause. ) 



Selection by the Quartette. 



Mr. Marple: 



"Somewhere near the city of Louisville on the river, a 

 farmer got tired of life and he went to his barn, took a blind 

 bridle and proceed to hang himself. His boy came in shortly 

 afterwards and seeing his father hanging in the barn, c^it hhn 

 down and found that he was not dead. 'John/ said the father, 

 'if you had left me be one minute longer, I would have been in 

 heaven.' And John said: 'You would have looked like hell in 

 heaven with a blind bridle on.' (Laughter.) 



We have with us a class of men without whom this conven- 

 tion would look badly — they are the supply men. They are the 

 men that we have depended upon at all of these meetings for 

 moral and financial help. It was deemed proper that some re- 

 muneration be given them, so on this program it was arranged 

 that two minutes should be given to these traveling men who 



